Featured Books for 11+ readers

Moon Pie
Simon Mason
April 2012 Book of the Month. As touching a story as its title suggests, Moon Pie is deft and witty in how it tells the story of Martha, who tries to cope with her father’s increasingly erratic and unpredictable behaviour after...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Emerald Atlas:The Books of Beginning 1
John Stephens
April 2012 Book of the Month.  A word from the author's UK publisher:  This is a fantastic magical adventure story to lose yourself in for days – a return to true adventure stories. This book has EVERYTHING you could ask for:...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Theodore Boone 2: The Abduction
John Grisham
Following on from the number one bestseller Theodore Boone, John Grisham delivers high intensity legal drama for a new generation of readers.
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Fix
Sophie Mckenzie
Interest Age 11+, Reading Age 8+. A tense novel about finding the special kind of courage needed to do the right thing in difficult circumstances. Blake is great footballer; playing football is all he wants to do but, with money...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The World of the Hunger Games

A must-have for fans of both the Hunger Games novels and the new Hunger Games film.  Welcome to Panem, the world of The Hunger Games. This is the definitive, richly illustrated, full-colour guide to all the districts of Panem, all...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Wonder
R. J. Palacio
Chosen by Stylist magazine as one of the Cult Books of 2012. Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, Wonder is a book you'll read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page. This is a...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Debuts of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The One Dollar Horse
Lauren St.John
Blue Peter prize-winner Lauren St John tells a thrilling rags-to-riches story in this gripping story of one girl and her dream. Horse-mad Casey has only one dream: to ride a winner in the Badminton Horse trials. But Casey lives in...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month | Pony Mad
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

All Fall Down
Sally Nicholls
March 2012 Book of the Month.  This is an eagerly anticipated, powerful and inspiring historical novel about survival in the face of real-life horror from one of today's most exciting young writers.  Sally Nicholls provides a heartbreaking account of one...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Brotherband: The Outcasts Book One
John Flanagan
This is the first in a fast-paced action adventure series that grips from the very first page.  Set on the high seas teams of boys must triumph over adversity if they are going to win the ultimate race of becoming...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books for Boys
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Girl in the Mask
Marie-Louise Jensen
March 2012 Book of the Month. How can feisty Sophia take her revenge on her father for forcing her into a life of high society in Bath? Outwardly, Sophie conforms by attending balls and masques. But, at night, she leads quite...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Itch
Simon Mayo
March 2012 Debut of the Month. A terrific action adventure packed-full of fascinating true science! Itch is making an unusual collection: when it is finished, it will include all the elements of the periodic table. But collecting elements is a...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Railway Children (Oxford Children's Classics)
Edith Nesbit
One of the best known classics in children's literature and a firm favourite of all the family. This wonderful addition to the Oxford Children's Classics range is a book to treasure and return to again and again and features...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Prince Who Walked With Lions
Elizabeth Laird
Award-winning Elizabeth Laird has an exceptional gift for telling stories that bring both other times and other countries to life. Son of a warmongering Abyssinian King, Alamayu grows up watching his father spilling the blood of his own people and...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Great and Dangerous
Chris Westwood
This is the brilliant follow-up to the highly acclaimed Ministry of Pandemonium by Chris Westwood so if you've not yet read the first one then you must.  Meet Ben and Becky whose job it is to guide the souls...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Twilight Robbery
Frances Hardinge
March 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Book Prize 2011. Award winning Frances Hardinge’s first novel Fly By Night starred Mosca Mye and Eponymous Clent. Now they are back for a thrilling new adventure in the city...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Watership Down
Richard Adams
Stunning and compulsive are two words that for me best describe the story of Fiver, of Hazel and the rabbit warren full of family and friends.  Rejected by most publishers before eventually being snapped up by Rex Collings in  the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Bookshelf Essentials | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles book 2)
Rick Riordan
From the author of the phenomenally successful Percy Jackson novels comes a terrific series set in Ancient Egypt rather than in Ancient Greece.  Rick really has his finger on the pulse when it comes to delivering what 9+ kids...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

The Young Inferno
John Agard
Age 9+. Winner of The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education's Poetry Award for 2009 and nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2010. Brilliantly original, John Agard’s poetic reworking of Dante’s Inferno for a young, modern audience is a thrilling journey of...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Poetry
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Everything's Amazing (Sort Of) : Tom Gates 3
Liz Pichon
March 2012 Book of the Month.  From the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize comes the third amazing instalment of this brilliant series. This again takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his scribbles and stories. Totally accessible for...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Under the Weather: Stories About Climate Change
Tony Bradman
Perfectly pitched for younger readers, this is a timely collection of stories about an urgent matter that will affect everyone’s future. The stories have a global perspective with different authors tackling the different consequences of the world warming up. Crucially,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Young Samurai: The Ring of Wind
Chris Bradford
With fast-paced action and non-stop adventure from page one no reader can fail to be hooked in to this terrific series set on the high seas in and around 17th century Japan.  The series will captivate young readers including the...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Books of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Wildwood
Colin Meloy
March 2012 Debut of the Month. This delightful book isn’t easy to categorise. Written and illustrated by a Husband and Wife team this surreal, fairytale-like story is full of adventure and excitement – beginning with the abduction of a one...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Debuts of the Month | Ebooks
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Season of Secrets
Sally Nicholls
A haunting and unforgettable novel from the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics such...
Featured in: 11+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Ways To Live Forever
Sally Nicholls
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award. Winner of Glen Dimplex Prize for New Writers 2008. Winner of Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2008. Winner of Luchs Prize (Germany) for best children’s book published in Germany in the last year. Sympathetic, touching,...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

One Dog and His Boy
Eva Ibbotson
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year Award 2011. Award winning Eva Ibbotson’s poignant and beautiful last book celebrates a boy’s passion for a dog. All Hal has ever wanted is a dog but his parents refuse...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Book Awards | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Around the World in Eighty Days (Oxford Children's Classics)
Jules Verne
Join Phileas Fogg on his epic adventure as he attempts to travel around the world in eighty days. If you love a good story, then look no further. Oxford Children's Classics bring together the most unforgettable stories ever told....
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 29/02/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Sam and Ruby's Olympic Adventure
Tony Bradman
Interest Age 9+ Reading Age 8+. An exciting time-travel story which gives special insight into the background story of the Olympics. Both badly behaved at school, Sam and Ruby hate work and do their best to avoid it. When they are...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 9+ readers | Dyslexia-friendly | Reluctant Readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Socks Are Not Enough
Mark Lowery
A piece of Passion from the Publisher: We at Scholastic Children’s Books are very proud to be publishing Socks Are Not Enough by Mark Lowery in February 2012.  It genuinely takes a lot to make me laugh – especially out loud....
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Blade 1: Enemies
Tim Bowler
Previously published in two parts as Blade: Playing Dead and Blade: Closing In, this is a stunning new package for this groundbreaking series. Narrated by Blade himself, be prepared to enter his world. It's not pretty ...it's urban, real and...
Featured in: 11+ readers | 14+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy

Breaking the Circle
S. M. Hall
Breaking the Circle is a highly-charged adventure which unflinchingly captures the dangers of the shadowy world of illegal immigration and drug dealing. When Maya is mugged on the way home from school she finds herself inextricably involved with her muggers...
Featured in: 11+ readers | Ebooks
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Info   Extract   Wishlist   Compare Price   Buy